{"id":5461,"date":"2011-02-24T20:16:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T04:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=5461"},"modified":"2011-02-24T20:16:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T04:16:04","slug":"using-dropbox-with-mac-os-x-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/02\/24\/using-dropbox-with-mac-os-x-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Dropbox with Mac OS X Lion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE 3 (2011-07-20):<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dropbox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dropbox 1.1.35<\/a> is compatible from OS X Lion.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re feeling a bit adventurous, you can use the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/forums.dropbox.com\/topic.php?id=41644\" target=\"_blank\">forums build<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 2:<\/strong><br \/>\nDropbox Team Member <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.dropbox.com\/profile.php?id=2068\" target=\"_blank\">Rian H.<\/a> posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.dropbox.com\/topic.php?page=2&amp;id=33706#post-294801\" target=\"_blank\">reply<\/a> assuring that the team is working to make Dropbox fully compatible with Mac OS X Lion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;hey everyone, just wanted to give you all a heads-up that we&#8217;ll be working diligently on making dropbox 100% compatible with 10.7 over the next couple of months. stay tuned!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><br \/>\nApparently the current version of Dropbox caused the Finder to crash right after login.<br \/>\nApple Engineers have confirmed this and recommended Developers to wait until the issue is resolved. If you are a registered Apple Developer, head to Apple Developer Forums for the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Numbers of users are reporting they found out that Dropbox.app would not work with Mac OS X Lion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can&#8217;t use this version of the application Dropbox with this version of Mac OS X.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Dropbox-v-Lion.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dropbox v Lion\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Dropbox-v-Lion.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thread on <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.dropbox.com\/topic.php?id=33706\" target=\"_blank\">Dropbox Forums<\/a> is dedicated to this issue. Dropbox user &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/forums.dropbox.com\/profile.php?id=108584\" target=\"_blank\">Filip S.<\/a>&#8221; came up with a solution:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve figured out a quick fix for this issue. Open Info.plist inside the application bundle, and change &#8220;Bundle Version&#8221; to 2.0 . Apparently Lion doesn&#8217;t allow applications with low bundle versions to run for some reason.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>Now Dropbox v.1.0.20 works in Mac OS X Lion.<\/p>\n<p>Dropbox info.plist before the modification:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Lion-Dropbox-plist-before.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lion Dropbox plist before\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Lion-Dropbox-plist-before.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dropbox info.plist after the modification:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Lion-Dropbox-plist-after.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lion Dropbox plist after\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Lion-Dropbox-plist-after.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE 3 (2011-07-20): Dropbox 1.1.35 is compatible from OS X Lion. If you&#8217;re feeling a bit adventurous, you can use the &#8220;forums build&#8220;. UPDATE 2: Dropbox Team Member Rian H. posted a reply assuring that the team is working to make Dropbox fully compatible with Mac OS X Lion. &#8220;hey everyone, just wanted to give &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/02\/24\/using-dropbox-with-mac-os-x-lion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using Dropbox with Mac OS X Lion.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[66,403,404,919,1872,1931,2009,2352,2511,936,3039],"class_list":["post-5461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-11a390","tag-applications","tag-apps","tag-dropbox","tag-lion","tag-mac-os-x","tag-media","tag-plist","tag-resources","tag-tech","tag-troubleshooting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1q5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}